Meh, I liked it. A lot, actually - for the most part. I thought the script was great - I like how the development of Clark/Super Man was stitched together non-linear. The score was compelling. Most of the casting was great - Cavill is SuperMan IMO. His physique is spot on and his facial expressions are perfect (genuine disappointment when someone does him wrong). Kevin Costner was great as the dad Kent, and Diane Lane was...pretty good as Martha. What I didn't like was a) Michael Shannon as Zod. He's just too goofy looking to be taken seriously as a comic-book villain, an effect that was amplified when he gets angry. b) The action scene at the end where they're just pointlessly smashing each other into buildings when neither are affected by blunt trauma. c) Amy Adams as Lois Lane. Like...every other actress to play Lois in the different Superman franchises were all more convincing...and GDI she's supposed to be a brunette, not a ginger. How do you mess that up?

I mostly hated the interaction right before Clark's dad's death. Seemed completely un-Superman to me to not save him. Clark's parents instilled the believe in him that he should help people, so where did he learn that in the MCU? I guess they wanted a darker Supes, but I don't think they did it right.

You mean Clark's decision not to save Kevin Costner's Jonathan/dad Kent? I thought they explained that perfectly. After Clark saved everyone on the bus from drowning, dad Kent lectures him on the importance of keeping his powers a secret because he is more important than a few human lives. Fast Forward to the tornado - Jonathan Kent being no hypocrite, reminds Clark of this with a subtle hand gesture and shake of the head: keeping Clark's powers and origins a secret is more important than saving Jonathan's life. Anything he does to save lives after that point is no longer just bravado. He may be all powerful, but he's still taking a massive risk.

Man...I forget what game or even which of the last two seasons it was, but I remember a game where basically the entire offense was injured except Rodgers and Nelson. Like...even our second-stringers were injured. They couldn't even line up. Only Aarod and Jordy were on the field for offense. Jordy would line up as center, go in motion, snap to Aarod, then run a perfect flag route and after Aarod shook off 9 defenders - found Jordy in double coverage and threw a perfect over-the-shoulder fade that Jordy hauled in for the TD.

Army Guard dude here. I've had two deployments in 2005 and 2011; both were one-year overseas (plus a month or two for pre-mobilization training and a week of out-processing upon return). My understanding is that they're never longer than that unless you get extended, but extended for a month or two, not two more years. We all got two-weeks of leave somewhere in the middle to go home. I got my wife pregnant on leave and he was born 2 months after I got back (yes, he's definitely mine). Nowadays, deployments are typically 9 months without the two-week leave.

I think fear is the primary motivation on both sides, whether rational or not. I was born and raised in Montana. The first black man I ever met was on the boardwalk at Venice beach. He tried to give me his mix CD. I took it, thanked him, and told him I would listen to it. Then he chased me down the boardwalk and two of them tried to beat the shit out of me for not paying him for it. 17 year old me just didn’t understand the “hustle”

I’m not racist. But I was definitely weary until other positive experiences with blacks supplanted that one. Mainly in the army where everyone is treated equally shitty by rich old white politicians and it makes you bond.

Hell that led to me being the first white man to ever get his haircut at a barber shop in Newport News Virginia when I was the best man for my friends wedding. The haircut was a horrific. disaster but it was one of the best experiences of my life.

Most people function in indifference until fear supersedes that. Then most people function in fear until love supersedes fear.

As a liberal, and even though it's possibly true, it's an irrelevant statement. As much as we complain, trying to get Trump supporters to stop kicking a dead horse by bringing up Hillary and Obama everytime they need to deflect any blame on anything, how stupid is it making us look to reference them like hypocrites. I want everything Trump does on his shoulders alone. I want him and the GOP to bare responsibility for everything their administration does. If I have to accept that this is the Trump era, then I want them to accept the heat in the kitchen too. We need to leave Obama and Hillary out of our mouths.

I totally understand the reason for being cynical, but don't give up. While the challenge has become simply keeping score of all the "this shit shouldn't be allowed to happen" examples that seem to happen on a daily basis with this administration - make the effort. Remind people. There are people that won't budge, but many are just influenced by the overwhelming propaganda they endure if they just watch Fox News and alt-right sources. The key is to be respectful and courteous and constructive despite the overwhelming urge to scream at the top of your lungs - it just doesn't do any good and only confirms their presumptions. Explain how this isn't normal or acceptable. I still run into otherwise reasonable and educated people that just don't watch the news and follow what's happening. I still hear "but you got to admit he's funny" and I have to resist the urge to cringe. Instead, I start with the concession that "maybe in different context I would absolutely find it funny, but in the context of the office he's holding, he's doing serious damage to our soft power with the rest of the world...etc. And it's not just meaningless rhethoric, he's swaying public opinion just enough to get away with major policy changes that are categorically bad for all of us".

Ask them questions and don't make assumptions. Ask them why they support this administration and/or GOP policies and kill them with hard facts. Many people still think the GOP tax bill was a "middle-class tax cut" as they sold it...and they always pause when I explain that the "middle-class" part of the tax cut was miniscule compared to the tax cut for the top 1%; which, by the way, was made permanent while the middle-class cut is temporary. "What does that tell you about their priorities?"

Over the past 60 to 100 years, glaciers worldwide have tended to retreat. Alpine glaciers, which are typically smaller and less stable to begin with, seem particularly susceptible to retreat. Over 90 percent of the measured alpine glaciers in the world are retreating, in almost every major glaciated region. The causes of this widespread retreat are varied, but the underlying primary causes are a warming climate and the effects of increased soot and dust in areas of higher agricultural and industrial activity.

His "Tough and Competent" speech after Apollo 1 really tells what type of leader he was.

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it.
We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily. Nothing we did had any shelf life. Not one of us stood up and said, "Dammit, stop!"

I don't know what Thompson's committee will find as the cause, but I know what I find. We are the cause! We were not ready! We did not do our job. We were rolling the dice, hoping that things would come together by launch day, when in our hearts we knew it would take a miracle. We were pushing the schedule and betting that the Cape would slip before we did.

From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough and Competent."

Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for.

Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission Control will be perfect.

When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.

Huh, well that makes this way more strange and makes me think they know somethings up and are keeping it from the public to prevent panic. Wasn't really buying the conspiracy nonsense before this changes things.

I don't know about any conspiracies, but certainly suggests this guy had a plan and not that there was some foul play involved. Suicide is the most likely, I suspect. But one has to worry he had something more sinister in mind.

Oh good, more absolutes. A quick Google search tells me that 50% of the nation is pro-choice, vs 44% pro-life. Literally half the country agrees that it should be legal. I would search for anti-rape vs pro-rape and anti/pro-murder, but I doubt anyone has done an unbiased survey on either - let's agree that the percentages for both are near 100% as universally bad.

Big difference: they knew it was wrong, but justified it because they profited from it. In contrast, no significant portion of the population is profiting from abortion, so the question is really about how universally wrong it is.

Possibly, but this same guy has been spouting the same bullshit about the Parkland, FL students and the fact that Trump chose this week to retweet something the dude tweeted back in 2014 is well...a little bit of a coinky-dink. Pretty obvious he's trying to point people to this notion without explicitly flouting it himself.

Begs the question: does Mueller have evidence of post-2014 crimes on Gates - but using them now would also implicate Trump, so he's avoiding using it so he can continue to the build an iron-clad case on Trump without outside interference?

Yeah, nothing against the German Shepherds at all - probably the best breed you could have for home security - but even my little marshmallow of a dog, a Springer Spaniel, would would likely make any burglar instantly regret breaking in. She is the most loving dog and just wants to play, but has shown protective instincts for sure. One thing about Springers is they always think they're starving - one day she snagged a loaf of bread and I tried to get it out of her mouth. Now...I'm a relatively muscular 210-pound red-meat-eatin dude, but getting the mouth open on this 40-pound ball of snuggle fluff, even in the slightest, was NOT happening once she knew I was trying to take food away. I can't imagine what that bite force must feel like clamped down on an arm or a neck.

Reminds of that recent gif where some dipshit is holding up his phone to record video of himself looking all smug while the teacher is writing on the board...teacher turns around, pauses, and nails the phone with a piece of chalk. Now imagine Trump's alternate reality where teacher is so fed up with this kid's shit that he caps him right in his dome. That's all I can think of.

In fairness, he has limited options for what he could do unilaterally. He can lead the conversation and voice what he would support, as he just did (whether or not he follows through with it when if and when it comes to his desk is another question entirely). The solution really should start with Congress because 2A needs updating.